Karl Marx

January 13, 2011

(Join John B. Judis and Richard Just at 1 p.m. on January 20 for a livestream discussion about the Republicans' return.)
In 1960, the political scientist Clinton Rossiter began his classic text, Parties and Politics in America, with the following memorable words: “No America without democracy, no democracy without politics, no parties without compromise and moderation.” Rossiter saw U.S.

November 25, 2010

July 17, 2010

Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining For Lives in the Holocaust
by Ronald Florence
(Viking, 336 pp., $27.95)
I.
March 18, 1944 was an unusually pleasant spring day in Budapest, with crowds filling the outdoor cafés: it was difficult to tell that Hungary was at war. Rumors were spread about the government’s secret negotiations with the Western Allies, and all surmised that an unspoken agreement existed according to which the Hungarians would not fire on American and British aircraft overflying the country and the enemy aircraft would not drop any bombs.

July 17, 2010

Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining For Lives in the Holocaust
by Ronald Florence
(Viking, 336 pp., $27.95)
I.
March 18, 1944 was an unusually pleasant spring day in Budapest, with crowds filling the outdoor cafés: it was difficult to tell that Hungary was at war. Rumors were spread about the government’s secret negotiations with the Western Allies, and all surmised that an unspoken agreement existed according to which the Hungarians would not fire on American and British aircraft overflying the country and the enemy aircraft would not drop any bombs.

May 05, 2010

March 21, 2010

Let me offer a ludicrously premature opinion: Barack Obama has sealed his reputation as a president of great historical import. We don't know what will follow in his presidency, and it's quite possible that some future event--a war, a scandal--will define his presidency. But we do know that he has put his imprint on the structure of American government in a way that no Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson has.
The last two generations have no model for such a president.

March 12, 2010

Imagine a new Library of Alexandria. Imagine an archive that contains all the natural and social sciences of the West—our source-critical, referenced, peer-reviewed data—as well as the cultural and literary heritage of the world's civilizations, and many of the world’s most significant archives and specialist collections. Imagine that this library is electronic and in the public domain: sustainable, stable, linked, and searchable through universal semantic catalogue standards.

November 01, 2008

Das Kapital is on the best seller list in Germany. Yes, Marx's Das Kapital. Even
the cover is like the original. Oh, I almost forgot: the writer is not
Karl Marx but Renihard Marx, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Munich.
The
story is told by Bertrand Benoit in the weekend FT, with
accompanying photo of the bearded cleric with threatening eyes and
gesticulating hands. Sales of Das Kapital by
the old mole Karl Marx is also rising, likely a result of the world
economic crisis.

April 02, 2007

Kim Murphy is a London correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
London, England
One night last June, 400 A-list guests and several packs of wolvesdescended upon Althorp, the ancestral home of the late PrincessDiana. The guests--who included Orlando Bloom, Elle MacPherson, andSalman Rushdie--had been invited to attend a fund-raiser for theRaisa Gorbachev Foundation, which helps childhood cancer victims inRussia.